Tuesday, November 28, 2006
ITS GREAT TO BE BACK!
om! we are back 2 daes earlier than expected cause we cldnt wait to get off phuket esp my bro who was suffering frm motion sickness all day long hes like pregnant or sumthing ...we were singing all the national dae songs tt we know all the way back =))) i wanted to take a pic of myself kissing the airplane seat goodbye .. but my mum thinks its disgusting hehheh so yeah so what we took are all the decent photos where u stand still like a pole =))
heres a few random thoughts abt phuket
1)damn ex! haha amazing huh u tot that thailand was a heaven for shopping ,the taxi fares are like 50-100 sing dollars out of the resort ...tts like one big kiss for sinagpore taxi fares
2) some of the thai ppl mislead us,they claimed to be giving us instruction when we got down the hotel van . they brought us to weird places and charged us for it .
3)unfortunetly theres hardly any real thai food there ,its all fusion food ,phuket is a hot tourist destination for the westerners so they have to cater to the needs of the majority of the tourists,ive tried 4 bowls of tom yum goog there and they all taste different ...go figure!
4) my bro reminded me tt everything in phuket town is fake =) tt was a rather random though frm my bro but its true aft i thought for a while.... there are real imitation goods and real transvistites ...but heyy tt was really an eye opener=)) buttts there are real fruits ,and the fruits are really good esp the longans they make a crisp sound when u press them oooohhhh yeah
5) the resort we stayed in is wonderful =)) theres someone to make ur bed and line it with fresh linens,theres cable tv and a nice beach to lie on (the sae water quality is only slightly better than s'pore thou )and the toilet is love ...it smells so good
6)im so glad tt we can drink the water frm the tap in s'pore ..in thailand we hav to drink bottled water ...so yea we are armed with the 1.5 liter water bottle everywhere we went ....but it was quite an experience tt i enjoyed hehheh i hav a bottle of singha chlorinated water sitting on my table now to remind myself of what i have in s'pore .the water really does hav a strong smell of bleach and it taste sweet
7) my father was on a seminar our family had dinner with the other ppl on seminar
frm asia ,ive learnt quite a bit frm them ...there was this malaysian uncle who made us laugh loads ill definetly rem him if theres another seminar like this
8) our parents exposed my bro and i to white water rafting....its so surreal ,its rather dangerous too as there were many huge rocks tt we cld crash into but it was the best experience ever .we also did elephant trekking ,i found it darn cruel for humans to be riding on animals ,i tot i saw the elephat tear ,they use a shap tool to poke the elephant to stop it frm moving .....yikes it was like the longest elephant ride ever..lols my father tried to give it some relief by massaging it .we also tried sitting on a water bufflo cart ,my father reminded us abt being equally yolked he pointed out to us tt if one bufflo is lazy the other will suffer and hav to work harder .we also rode on a AVm(ithink) its like a car a mini one without a shelter over ur head so we speed around the plantation hehheh my daddy says i can speed(=tt was thrilling ...lols but i just cant stand one and a half hrs getting frm one activity to another haha my bro was puking loads up and around the hilly moutains
in all it was a good experience but the cost of living is too high ..i wonder how the local ppl survive ,we talked to the bus driver and a few other thais tt we encountered ,they dun save much and most of them dun hav jobs during the dry season (april to oct )everybody stays at home because the weather is too hot and the trees die ..to make things worse the wells are dry too so they hav to purchase bottled water for drinking,bathing,cooking and blahs .treated water is nort chaep and they earn so little ...yikes! i seriously wonder how they live .....
anywaes home sweet home
rainbow;
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